: Web Hosting Checklist Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am a web developer that is starting to look into hosting his own website. I would

@Cugini213

Verify if your site is optimized to conserve bandwidth usage (HTTP
Compression is enabled, JS & CSS files are minified, etc)
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@Karen161

One of the most important issues for me is support.

What I used to do before becoming a host myself was email or phone a companies tech support with a question and see how long it took to be answered. IF the sales telephone gets picked up straight away but support rings off... walk away.

If they were too slow they got crossed off the list.

Other things to look out for are


Do they offer a fully featured control panel ie CPanel.
Subdomains
private directories
mailing lists
can you easily have extra Perl or PHP modules added
Do they offer one click software installs like Softalicious.
Do they give you shell access for testing scripts
what about backups, do they provide them, are their costs for restores.
What is their SLA with regards to downtime.
What are their downtime stats.
What are their policies on overuse? Would they sting you or be fair about it
Do they offer email spam protection
Visitor logs/stats
Is there a DNS editor?
Custom 404 pages
Databases... how many what type
Do you have phpMyAdmin etc
Does the hosting package you're interested in have enough RAM memory you'll need. Often times 500MB is not enough with everything running. What would it cost to increase the dedicated ram if needed?
What things will they manage and what will you be responsible for (example will they upgrade the control panel for you if there's a security update or will you have to)

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